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If you would like to conserve battery power on your Mac, this tutorial is for you! Energy Saver settings on your Mac can be used for many things including conserving battery power and scheduling your Mac to shut down. While this tutorial does not require any additional software, it does require Mac OS X Lion. [...]

Now that the holidays are rolling around, you may have some extra time off to use your Mac or iOS devices. If so, you may want to try out some new games on your Mac—for free! In this article we will be highlighting a few of the best free games for your Mac. Keep in [...]

Photo Stream is an awesome feature that was announced with iOS 5 and iCloud. With Photo Stream, whenever you take a photo on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, it’s automatically uploaded to Apple’s iCloud servers and streamed to all of your Mac and iOS devices. Photo Stream doesn’t count against your iCloud storage. Lastly, [...]

Apple has recently announced the next update to the OS X operating system— OS X lion. The ideas for this update come from Apples features on iPad. Even without knowing that these ideas were geared around iPad features, it is quite apparent just looking at the layout of the new features that they are iPad [...]

Discovered on December 21, 2010, BlackHole RAT is the latest security threat that can affect OS X users. At one point, in the not-so-distant past, Mac users could tout the fact that there were no known viruses or trojans for the Mac platform…unlike the countless viruses and trojans that affect Windows. Last October, a Java-based [...]

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, which updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_22. The new release is primarily aimed at resolving security issues; among them: “Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Java 1.6.0_20, the most serious of which may allow an untrusted Java applet to execute arbitrary code outside the Java [...]

Mac OS X desktop icons may spontaneously rearrange or become unsorted (scrambled) after restarting or force quitting and restarting the Finder. In these cases, items lose their alphabetical or other sorting, and may scatter to various parts of the desktop. Fix You may be able to resolve this issue by deleting the .DS_Store file on [...]

Apple has released Security Update 2010-005 in the following editions: Security Update 2010-005 (Snow Leopard – Client) Security Update 2010-005 (Snow Leopard – Server) Security Update 2010-005 (Leopard-Client) Security Update 2010-005 (Leopard-Server) The new release is available through Software Update or via the above download links. Among the security holes plugged: CoreGraphics Opening a maliciously [...]

A variety of factors can cause Safari for Mac OS X to load pages, open new tabs and windows, and perform other operations slowly. Fortunately, there are a few very simple techniques that can provide a dramatic speed boost: Remove Problematic Third-Party Add-Ons: Quit Safari, then check the following locations for third-party items (The ~ [...]

Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1 for Mac OS X in final form. The company promises “faster video playback, more efficient CPU utilization, and greater battery life” from the new release. An Adobe blog post states: “Mac performance was also an explicit focus for us. One improvement we made is the use of a double-buffered [...]